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Small reservoirs toolkit by Andreini, Marc, Schuetz, Tonya, Harrington, Larry W.

“…Here, we have aimed to provide comprehensive accounts of how to apply such techniques, with a focus on the requirements of potential facilitators. …”
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Evaluation of radio broadcasts on livestock feed and forage technologies by Mesfin, Hailemariam, Mekonnen, Kindu, Bezabih, Melkamu, Adie, Aberra, Gebreyes, Million, Assefa, Getnet, Seifu, Haimanot

“…It conducts participatory research that identifies technologies and management practices that work for farmers and takes account of contextual issues like markets for inputs and outputs, community and other institutions and policy environments that influence farm households. …”
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Mapping Foodscapes for Dietary Change to Promote Sustainable Diets in Rural Farming Communities in Tunisia by Ghazel, Sabir

“…However, the commonly used measures of dietary diversity, Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (FAO & FHI, 2016) has focused on adequacy of nutrients rather than taking into account the consumption of foods high in calories and low in nutrients whose consumption should be limited. …”
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Sustainable school feeding innovations in Kigali: Baseline survey report by Munyangeri, Yvonne, Mutua, Mercy, Rurangwa, Edouard, Ngabire, Sam, Dusabimana, Emmanuel, Tuyishime, Omar, Rubyogo, Jean Claude, Birachi, Eliud A

“…Respondents were mainly heads of schools, head teachers, and school accountants. The baseline results include school ownership indicators, the number of students, the governance of the school feeding program, key school meals, cooking fuel, bean consumption, awareness and adoption of pre-cooked beans, school gardens, best agronomic practices, and climate knowledge. …”
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A SARS-CoV-2 surveillance system in Sub-Saharan Africa: Modeling study for persistence and transmission to inform policy by Post, Lori Ann, Argaw, Salem T., Jones, Cameron, Moss, Charles B., Resnick, Danielle

“…The lack of sufficient testing, asymptomatic infections, and poor reporting practices in many countries limit our understanding of the virus’s impact, creating a need for better and more accurate surveillance metrics that account for underreporting and data contamination. …”
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Mechanization outsourcing services in Myanmar's dry zone by Belton, Ben, Fang, Peixun, Reardon, Thomas

“…Purchases of 4WT made using credit obtained from government sources accounted for 19% of sales. The introduction of transferrable land use rights (Form 7) has facilitated access to formal finance. …”
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Data Descriptor: Smart Subsidies for Catchment Conservation in Malawi by Bell, Andrew R., Ward, Patrick S., Mapemba, Lawrence, Nyirenda, Zephania, Msukwa, Wupe, Kenamu, Edwin

“…Finally, the data include an accounting of what, if anything, recipients purchased with the voucher they received. …”
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Philippine agricultural and food policies: Implications for poverty and income distribution by Cororaton, Caesar B., Corong, Erwin

“…A dynamic-recursive computable general equilibrium model calibrated to the social accounting matrix for the Philippine economy for the year 2000 and a microsimulation model that uses the 2000 Family Income and Expenditure Survey are used to analyze possible policy shifts. …”
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Household wellbeing in rural Papua New Guinea: Poverty analysis from the 2023 PNG Rural Household Survey by Mahrt, Kristi, Schmidt, Emily, Fang, Peixun, Mukerjee, Rishabh

“…When recalculating the poverty line to account for a healthy diet threshold (a mix of food groups set at quantities consistent with dietary guidelines), we find that 64 percent of the sample is below the healthy diet poverty line. …”
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Exploring environmental and distributional impacts of different transition pathways for healthier and sustainable diets: An economic modelling study by Kuiper, Marijke, de Lange, Thijs, van Zeist, Willem-Jan, van Meijl, Hans

“…In low-income regions, taxes and subsidies accounted for the largest share in the diet shift. …”
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Smallholder farms livestock management practices and their implications on livestock water productivity in mixed crop-livestock systems in the highlands of Blue Nile basin: A case... by Abebe, A.

“…Cattle were the major livestock species accounting for 83% of the total Tropical Livestock Unit. …”
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Global irrigated area map (GIAM), derived from remote sensing, for the end of the last millennium by Thenkabail, Prasad S., Biradar, Chandrashekhar M., Noojipady, P., Dheeravath, Venkateswarlu, Li, Yuan Jie, Velpuri, Naga Manohar, Gumma, Murali K., Gangalakunta, O.R.P., Turral, Hugh, Xueliang Cai, Vithanage, Jagath, Schull, M.A., Dutta, R.

“…The distribution of irrigated areas is highly skewed amongst continents and countries. Asia accounts for 79% (370 Mha) of all AIAs, followed by Europe (7%) and North America (7%). …”
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Disentangling the water, food and energy nexus in agriculture: a policy option for India [Abstract only] by Amarasinghe, Upali A.

“…In 2011, the total population of India was 1.2 billion, of which AP accounted for 84 million people. Among the 32 major states in India, AP has the fifth largest population, fourth largest geographical area, second largest economy and 5 million hectares of net irrigated area (NIA), which is 9% of the total NIA of the country. …”
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Building essential biodiversity variables (EBVs) of species distribution and abundance at a global scale by Kissling, W. Daniel, Ahumada, Jorge A., Bowser, Anne, Fernández, Miguel, Fernández, Néstor, García, Enrique Alonso, Guralnick, Robert P., Isaac, Nick J. B., Kelling, Steve, Los, Wouter, McRae, Louise, Mihoub, Jean-Baptiste, Obst, Matthias, Santamaria, Monica, Skidmore, Andrew K., Williams, Kristen J., Agosti, Donat, Amariles, Daniel, Arvanitidis, Christos, Bastin, Lucy, Leo, Francesca de, Egloff, Willi, Elith, Jane, Hobern, Donald, Martin, David, Pereira, Henrique M., Pesole, Graziano, Peterseil, Johannes, Saarenmaa, Hannu, Schigel, Dmitry, Schmeller, Dirk S., Segata, Nicola, Turak, Eren, Uhlir, Paul F., Wee, Brian, Hardisty, Alex R.

“…These workflow steps take multiple sequential activities into account, including identification and aggregation of various raw data sources, data quality control, taxonomic name matching and statistical modelling of integrated data. …”
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Incidencia de aves granívoras y su importancia como plagas en el cultivo de quinua (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) en el altiplano peruano by Loza del Carpio, Alfredo, Clavitea, Judith, Delgado Mamani, Pedro Ernesto

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Pattern and process in crop species diversity and lime requirements models by Aramburu Merlos, Fernando

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Organic agriculture in Argentina’s Pampas. A case study on Pampa Orgánica Norte farmers by Cabrini, Silvina María, Elustondo, Luciana

“…Extensive sheep production in Patagonia natural grasslands accounts for most of this area and harvested organic area remains a very small fraction of total harvested land (0.6%). …”
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The Piroplasmida Babesia, Cytauxzoon, and Theileria in farm and companion animals : species compilation, molecular phylogeny, and evolutionary insights by Schnittger, Leonhard, Ganzinelli, Sabrina Belen, Bhoora, Raksha, Omondi, David, Nijhof, Ard M., Florin-Christensen, Mónica

“…When only domestic mammalian hosts are taken into account, Babesia sensu lato (s.l.) parasites of Clades I and II infect only dogs and cats, respectively, Cytauxzoon spp. placed into Clade III only infect cats, Theileria placed into Clade IV exclusively infect horses, wheras Theileria sensu stricto (s.s.) of Clade V infects only cattle and small ruminants. …”
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Adsorption and mobility of glyphosate in different soils under no-till and conventional tillage by Okada, Elena, Costa, Jose Luis, Bedmar, Francisco

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Modelos de crecimiento diamétrico para Nothofagus dombeyi = Diameter growth models for Nothofagus dombeyi by Chauchard, Luis Mario, Sbrancia, Renato, Rabino, Alberto, Gonzalez Peñalba, Carlos Marcelo, Maresca, Leonardo

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